Ralph Armstrong

the window was open
cold came in
I didn’t close it

#Photography Maria Carvalho
@immcarvalho.bsky.social

Photo of 6 partly mature balsam fir cones. The cones are blue/black in colour with many layers of white frilly structures on the cone surface.

Balsam Fir cones. #Newfoundland, Canada. #trees #botany #plants

Yesterday
Crocodiles during the Sunset
Such a peaceful moment, after a day of work
@evocroproject.bsky.social #animalcognition

Two signs that read, “The wrong side of history will always be the side that denies someone of their humanity.”

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Translator Talk | Adventures of Max Spitzkopf: The Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, with Mikhl Yashinsky | Yiddish Book Center Zoom | Thursday, February 26, 2026 @ 7:00 p.m. ET

Max Spitzkopf, the great Vienna detective and Yiddish Sherlock Holmes, now appearing in English translation, with a translator talk at the Yiddish Book Center.

www.yiddishbookcenter.org/events/upcom...

I have spent my entire adult life being lectured by Republican politicians and conservative legal movement types about how important it is to preserve the sacred constitutional right to self-defense of *specifically this person* and then secret police murdered him in the street

Pritzker: "An American president should be standing up, calling for calm. That's not what this president ever does. In fact, he wants the temperature to go up. Why? Because what he's looking for is an excuse to invoke the Insurrection Act, to bring actual troops into American cities."

They executed a REGISTERED NURSE bsky.app/profile/alex...

Man holds phone recording ICE before being killed

He was holding a phone not a gun, his crime? Opposing the regime. So they murdered him.

“Everyone should be allowed to carry a gun for their safety but the government can murder you in the street if you have a gun” is an incredible endpoint for the conservative moment

After the first shots are fired, the man collapses on the ground. Agents back away. At least another 5 shots are fired toward the man who is already incapacitated on the ground.

Two different agents are visibly firing their guns, with at least 10 shots being heard in total. Most of them are fired after a brief delay, when the man is already lying motionless on the ground. The current videos of the shooting only show these two agents with guns drawn.

Moments before the first shot is fired, this federal agent can be seen retreating with a gun. It appears to match the general appearance of the firearm posted by DHS, including the red dot sight. This agent’s back is turned when the first shot occurs. x.com/BillMelugin_...

As tens of thousands across America protest the violence that ICE sows with impunity, federal agents shot and killed another person in Minneapolis today.

ICE terrorizes our cities. ICE puts us all in danger. Abolish ICE.

Man shot during Minneapolis immigration crackdown has died, hospital record shows A 51-year-old man shot by federal immigration officers in Minneapolis has died, a hospital record obtained by The Associated Press shows. Gov.

"After the shooting, an angry crowd gathered and screamed profanities at federal officers, calling them 'cowards' and telling them to go home. One officer responded mockingly as he walked away, telling them: 'Boo hoo.' Agents elsewhere shoved a yelling protester into a car."

Volunteers delivering groceries to families report being followed by ICE Twin Cities Food Justice is partnering with local schools to donate 1,000 food bags to families.

www.kare11.com/article/news...

Breaking: ICE is now reportedly following white people on grocery runs in Minnesota, suspecting they're delivering food to neighbors too afraid to leave their homes.

Neighborhood instructions:

Don't put the address in your phone.

Don't use GPS.

Write it on paper.

And if you get stopped, eat it.

Minneapolis protester as he's being brutalized by feds: "You're gonna have to kill me! You're gonna have to kill me! I've done nothing wrong! My name is Matthew James! I'm a US citizen! You're gonna kill me! Is that what you want?" (You can hear his wife screaming)

Alex J Pretti

Alex J Pretti. That was his name. He had a YouTube channel, and a Linkdin profile. I think he was a nurse. He was 37 and had a permit to carry. www.youtube.com/@alexjpretti...

Alex Pretti from his early days working at the VA

Alex from our time working together, while he was in nursing school. Later, he moved to ICU, working as a nurse to support critically ill Veterans. He had such a great attitude. We’d chat between patients about trying to get in a mountain bike ride together. Will never happen now

Video frame from Minnesota Public Radio News observer video recorded by Stella Carlson that clearly shows federal agents firing the final shots into a motionless body of Alex Pretti from about 15 feet away

Alex Pretti; 37 years old; ICU nurse caring for American veterans; resident of Minneapolis, Minnesota; natural-born U.S. citizen; served his country in Minneapolis and gave his last breath for human dignity. May his sacrifice be a call to action for all Americans who believe in our shared humanity.

The DHS funding bill is effectively dead in the Senate.

Alex Pretti "used to tell people off when they made sexist comments to female physicians. He bought me coffee when I had a really bad day as an intern...I laughed alongside him daily. He made a point to teach medical residents without judgement, but with a smile on his face and a joke."

14 minutes ago Mitch Smith Midwest reporter Superintendent Evans said that state investigators had a signed warrant to access the shooting scene, but they were denied access by federal officials. Even though state investigators "were not ave to do really any work at the scene once we had access,"he said, they had been talking to witnesses and seeking videos.

Multiple officials of the US federal government are spending their day rather blatantly obstructing Minnesota law enforcement and covering up a murder.

This interview is outstanding. The constant violations of everyone’s Constitutional rights by these Federal thugs is beyond words. #iceout

This. A handful of Americans have the power to stop this NOW, and they are refusing to.

Gov. Tim Walz: "Thank God we have video, because according to DHS, these seven heroic guys took an onslaught of a battalion against them or something. It's nonsense, people. It's nonsense and it is lies."

Voices of demons 👺

AOC: "An ICE officer had violently pushed a woman to the ground and he had come over to help get her up and that is what precipitated this incident that very quickly led to an execution in the streets. What we are seeing here is a momentous pivotal moment for the United States."